Press

"Under rising director Leda Hoffmann, a cast of 13 women is giving [The Penelopiad] an evocative staging in a playground under the Holton St. viaduct.""Hoffmann and her cast have created stunningly beautiful tableaux embodying the maids' difficult lives as poor women serving a rich one."

"If you want a captivating night of drama, one of your best bets right now is to go underground – or at least under-bridge, to see The Penelopiad, a powerful production that examines the tale of the Iliad and the Odyssey from abandoned wife Penelope’s point of view.""[Reva Fox] brings a tortured but powerful presence to the role, and her dozen co-actors support her well, with especially good turns from Molly Corkins as old nursemaid Eurycleia, Kelly Doherty as Odysseus, Gwen Zupan as Telemachus and Sally Staats as Melantho."

"Of the several potent images in Luminous Theatre’s production of The Penelopiad, none is as powerful and evocative as the final gesture of the play. After the last words, the cast simply turns and leaves the space via a pedestrian bridge, back to the realm from which they materialized 90 minutes before. It’s a beautiful moment, the actors walking slowly into darkness, the theater space suddenly empty and silent. And like all great moments in the theater, it’s also rich with meaning [. . .] The image of the thirteen women receding into the distance is not easily forgotten."

"No matter how well you know The Odyssey, moments and images from The Penelopiad will forever change the way you think of that epic journey. And the world that has been built on its foundations."

"Here we see a piece of the past that has been forgotten in the ever winding march of time . . . and we're seeing it as an afterthought in the margins of our own city as we hear the ever-present sounds of people going from one place to another both above and behind the action."